What did you do with your truck/shop today

[Jsdirt]

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Says the guy with the mobile computer ....

 

You're killing me V-max!

[Badass69]

I'm bored.. And I have a job... I do this while I get carted around from job to job because I don't want to drive... That's what employees are for.

 

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[KARNUT]

I'm 60 drove most of the performance cars and trucks back in the day owed a few good ones. Unless you special ordered most were slow and drove like school buses compared to today. My Santa Fe will out run most (performance) cars back in the 60-70s. High horsepower were lucky to get 60 K miles before rebuild (smoking ) till fuel injection. You were working on them every weekend, tuning rebuilding carbs etc, better now by far.

Edited August 7, 2016 by KARNUT

[Chevor]

I don't get the whole appeal of it was driven by grandpa. Spending as much time on the road as I do, GRANDPA is the worst speeder on the road. Trying to take someone with him.

 

I cut kids a little slack because they learned it from somewhere.

Edited August 7, 2016 by Chevor

[Jsdirt]

I'm 60 drove most of the performance cars and trucks back in the day owed a few good ones. Unless you special ordered most were slow and drove like school buses compared to today. My Santa Fe will out run most (performance) cars back in the 60-70s. High horsepower were lucky to get 60 K miles before rebuild (smoking ) till fuel injection. You were working on them every weekend, tuning rebuilding carbs etc, better now by far.

But that's just it - EVERYONE COULD do it back then. Today, you need a sizable chunk of cash, and lots of know-how to troubleshoot most problems without being a parts changer.

 

Things were alot simpler then. I will GLADLY take the lack of HP and comfort to be able to troubleshoot ANY problem ... cheaply. Not to mention how easy it was to fix! Open hood, change part. Done.

 

The best part about today is, you can buy the same car and put modern components on any system you want. Can't beat that!

Edited August 7, 2016 by Jsdirt

[KARNUT]

You have a point there, electronics can be a b-tch, you need special tools to deal.

 

But that's just it - EVERYONE COULD do it back then. Today, you need a sizable chunk of cash, and lots of know-how to troubleshoot most problems without being a parts changer.

 

Things were alot simpler then. I will GLADLY take the lack of HP and comfort to be able to troubleshoot ANY problem ... cheaply. Not to mention how easy it was to fix! Open hood, change part. Done.

 

The best part about today is, you can buy the same car and put modern components on any system you want. Can't beat that!

[SarahsGMC]

Replaced the low beam headlights in my truck for the second time this year!! Pulled it apart two weeks ago and ordered some LED's for it and when they came in one side worked great and one bulb only 1/2 of it lit up, so I sent them back and got another brand set in when to pull them up and neither one of them worked!!!! Dealer had another set just like the ones I had and they would not work either!!! So I went back with the Sylvinina (sp) bulbs, I hope I don't get to do this again anytime soon.

Flip the plugs. Leds only plug in one way.

 

Also by the way this bickering back and forth needs to stop, study the rules and the thread title. Last warning.

 

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Edited August 7, 2016 by SarahsGMC

[Daryl LBZ]

Modern electronics aren't THAT hard to deal with. Plug a code reader into the OBD port and read what it tells you is wrong. Get the sensor, swap it out, done.

 

Now, mostly the hard part is getting to what is wrong. Haha!

Edited August 7, 2016 by Daryl Z71

[Chevor]

Yeah, it's a nice racket GM has created there.

 

My dad is getting close to 80, so he drives pretty gentle and slow in his '09 Duramax. When the thing was new, he would be at the dealer every 2-300 miles for DPF problems at $200 a whack. Thing would go into limp mode at the worst possible time. One time we were towing his center-console boat down the Cape, in the middle of 495 traffic, and now couldn't maintain 55mph. What a joke!

 

If you were to baby a diesel like this, you'd get 500k or more out of it. GM can't have that now! Drive them gently, and all the emissions crap goes haywire. It's even worse on the newer ones people tell me. If you don't work them hard day in and day out, everything screws up.

Shouldn't blame GM for this. It's the Federal Government. And more specifically the party that "CLAIMS" they are gonna save the environment.

[Chevor]

Waly's in Riverdale UT. Be there till the morning.

 

 

90 degrees the suns out and it just started raining.

[Chevor]

And 5 fighters in the sky.

[Daly]

 

You're Santa Fe is a piece of shit that is going to let you down, BADLY, you mark my words. Remember, your POS Santa Fe needs a turbo to be fast. The old cars didn't. As for your Santa Fe being faster than the muscle cars of the 60s and 70s? I don't think so. It may be close in acceleration to 60 MPH but the muscle cars can easily outrun your little SUV in the long run. But... moving on.

 

 

 

I have an old muscle car and you seem to be forgetting that in order for them to be fast many had gears based for drag racing and at best a 4 speed manual transmission. They could launch, and had a great 60', but no top end. Most modern cars and SUV's would have no problem catching a muscle car after a quarter mile...

Acceleration is where the muscle car will likely get a modern commuter car, but the modern car is going to outrun the muscle car in a long run. Modern cars have more gears, highway gearing and a more stable platform at higher speeds. So stop talking out of your ass, you're embarrassing yourself...

 

Given the option I'll always take a muscle car over a soulless like-a-like modern car. But I'm not delusional enough to think I going to out run a 6 speed 250hp SUV on a long run, in my 3 speed 4.10 geared 395hp muscle car, just because I have more HP.

Edited August 8, 2016 by Daly

[SarahsGMC]

I have an old muscle car and you seem to be forgetting that in order for them to be fast many had gears based for drag racing and at best a 4 speed manual transmission. They could launch, and had a great 60', but no top end. Most modern cars and SUV's would have no problem catching a muscle car after a quarter mile...

Acceleration is where the muscle car will likely get a modern commuter car, but the modern car is going to outrun the muscle car in a long run. Modern cars have more gears, highway gearing and a more stable platform at higher speeds. So stop talking out of your ass, you're embarrassing yourself...

 

Given the option I'll always take a muscle car over a soulless like-a-like modern car. But I'm not delusional enough to think I going to out run a 6 speed 250hp SUV on a long run, in my 3 speed 4.10 geared 395hp muscle car, just because I have more HP.

You're forgetting governors speed limiters etc etc the more gears were made for smoother shifts, not so much to beat anyone in performance aspect

 

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Edited August 8, 2016 by SarahsGMC

[Jsdirt]

It's all how you build 'em. My cars had no problem running well into the triple digits. Wouldn't win a drag race, but were great daily drivers that kept me entertained.

 

I would gladly trade everything I own to have my El Camino back. Wouldn't regret any part of it.

[Chevor]

Limiters...Like the tuning in my to trucks. 2013 Cab & Chassis "LGH" diesil, damn employee tune. Get these assholes who think they have to pass right at the end of a merge. Truck won't takeoff. Better power pulling uphill compared to the 2010 but acceleration is slow.

 

At least I get those reckless drivers all on dash cam now.